Red Girls —
Kazuki Sakuraba

Kazuki
Sakuraba’s
Red
Girls: The Legend of the Akakuchibas
was
published as
Akakuchibaki
no Densetsu
in 2006. The 2015 English language edition was translated by Jocelyne Allen.

No
one would have thought that the foundling Manyo was marked for great
things. A mysterious mountain-dwelling clan had left the infant in
Benimidori, an insignificant rural village. Fostered by a local
family, she grew up as just another rustic in a small town notable
only for the old Akakuchiba iron works and some recent shipyards. But
fate had other plans for Manyo.